Violet--While
he's "big in Eastern Europe," DC-based experimental musician since the
early 80s, Violet has performed solo in town only 3 times. The last show,
opening for LoVid & Projexorcism at DC9, he turned in an intense, throbbing
set that roared into the night. Easily one of the best noise/drone sets
I've ever seen. Can he do it again?

Guillermo
Brown--Musician/composer/performance artist
based in NYC with solo recordings on Thirsty
Ear. Well-known as the drummer for the David S. Ware Quartet. [Cancelled
due to buss accident.]

This show will involve solo sets from each of the following
artists, followed by a collective free improv by all five.

Insect
Factory--DC area project of microtonal and microscopic ambience
with hypnotic layers of sounds and drone textures. Some influences are
John Fahey, Fripp/Eno, Steve Reich, Terry Riley. Insect Factory was started
by Jeff Barsky (guitar), but is always in the process of rediscovery, and
incorporates others to collaborate and challenge itself. Insect Factory
has a cd-r release on SoundETERNALsound and a self-released split on Insectfields.

DaVe--Scene newcomer will drag some vintage synths
out of his basement to create modular analog musings. He promises to show
off the following: serge modular (sounds and control voltages), wiard 300
modular (sounds and control voltages), and doepfer modular (control voltages
and audio outputs).

Sub-Trans--DC-based jazz musian, DJ & sound
artist DaRon Jones creates electronic compositions he calls "Nu Transmissions"
by mixing "sonic textures on the fly from samples to loops to beats to
noisey ass wave files to cassette tapes with the meanest hissing. All that
shit in one pot like a crazy stew or something. I also do a tribute to
Richard Pryor." Check his artist blog at Subtrans8.blogspot.com

Matt Weston--(Northampton,
Mass) Combining trap kit percussion and electronics, Weston conjures up
intense waves of color and darkness. A veteran of numerous Boston free-improv
projects, Weston has released several recordings. Tone Ghosting will join
Weston as a special guest on at least one piece.

The
Cutest Puppy in the World--DC/Baltimore-based
improv duo of Layne Garrett and Bryan Rhodes tears it all up and throws
it all away. Sometimes we even try to put it back together again. We explore
saturated space, emergent forms, improvisational ethics of interaction.
We sound like folk music with broken strings, jazz on a tambourine, trance
in a burned-out basement. More info on Layne
Garrett.

Jakuta & Carl--Boy
& his laptop join up for freaky pop performance fun! Joe Jakuta promises
a more experimental, instrumentatl set this time around.

The ensemble's general aesthetic
has evolved into a process of sonic layering or lamenationin which sounds
may be frozen in real time (and/or from a previous moment), by a hyper-subtle
process of looping and manipulation. Careful attention is payed to aspects
of foreground and background texture, dynamics, density, pulse, contrasting
colors, as well as various modes of poly-rhythmic/metric /tempic playing.This
type of playing is smoothly juxtoposed with a more freewheeling yet interlocking
language of varying complexity, where a large emphasis is placed upon purely
timbral and sonic experimentation. These two areas freely flow in and out
of each other, creating a sound that can often become quite raucous and
'grooving' (in the truest sense of the word...an area that we generally
feel is largely ignored by most in the field of experimental improvisation),
or very spatial and reduced in texture."

sc.all--Towering walls of drone science from the
mad doctor of innovative tone production. Recordings on Scarcelight.

Tape Rape--Side project of the Facemat & Power
Bottom Orchestra crew manifest with tape machines and a will to self destruct.
4 reel-to-reel tape players, one giant loop, 4 madmen with noisemakers!

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August 7--Random Access Rendezvous

A workshop project for improvisors playing either acoustic
or electric sound sources. We'll be conducting impromptu partnerships for
on-the-spot conjury of dissonance and euphony. Bring your axe and your
skillz. Best to bring your own amplification if you'll need it. If you're
familiar with the "Volunteer Crap Shoot" hosted by Baltimore's Red Room,
you know what we're after here. Bystanders welcome. This is a free event!

RDK--RDK attempt to color within the lines of something called
spacemusic. Slow, evolving passages pioneered by Steve Roach and the like.
The fun begins when they venture outside the bounds of the genre. Way outside.
Often this is by design, other times not. So expect the unexpected when
Davis White and friends make an emergency landing at RDK's second El Possible.
Sample
RDK Music.

The Picture is Dead Quartet--combines analog and digital electronics
with vocals for a sound reminiscent of early Travelogue-era Human League
or very early Cabaret Voltaire.

Sunwards--Remnants
of VA's legendary free-noise band Rake have this to say for themselves:
"Acoustic frequencies focused in wave form beyond the present into
the futures. Tones. This project continues the 17-year collaboration of
~SKB~ and V2G2 and details the ongoing collapse of western civilization.
Less info and some sound files can be had at www.RAKE.info.
50 Ways to Leave the Planet, Phase II."

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June 5--C is for Chimerical:Cash Slave Clique & The Cutest Puppy in the World
& Croniamantal

Cash Slave Clique--Dynamic
DC duo of insane electronics and fevered imaginations features former member
of Osaka, Japan's Nimrod, current member of 36, who has performed with
Spaceships Panic Orbit, Steve McKay, Nik Turner, NoFi, etc. CDs on the
Sounds
from the Pocket label. Let there be cash!

Croniamantal--El
Possible's first lab project is a collaboration between free improvisors
and DC poet Buck Downs.
Instrumentation to include: theremin, analog electonics, viola, & keyboards
from members of Angus Brainpan, 10-String Trio, Alzo Boszormenyi and Spaceships
Panic Orbit. Downs is best known for his editorship of poetry mag Open
24 Hours, authorship of Marijuana
Softdrink, readings at Ruthless
Grip and In Your Ear, and his postcard poems. Named for the hero of
Apollinaire's surrealist novel The
Poet Assassinated. Hear a sound
clip of Croniamantal's historic first (and only) practice!

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May 1--Electronix Olde & Newe

Patrick Stacey's Homage
to Ohm--To create his elaborate tribute to early electronics, Homage
to Ohm, Baltimore's Patrick Stacey created his own sound sontrol station
and sampled segments from the Ellipsis Arts compilation "OHM: the
early gurus of electronic music" as source material for his own original
work.
Using computer based digital signal processing technology, he methodically
extracted hundreds of sound bites from throughout the collection. After
loading all this raw source material into a performance based application
from Ableton software called "Live," Patrick slowly put together a piece
that is at once an improvisation, a tribute, a science and an art. Check
out sound & video clips on his website.

BLK w/ Bear--DC sound/visual
artisan JS Adams - will perform a solo set of turntable-loop compositions.
BLK w/ BEAR's collaboration with London's Rothko [ 'wish for a world without
hurt' ] has garnered international acclaim and airplay and was a 2004 Outmusic
nominee for Best Instrumental Recording. His 2004 limited-edition 12-inch
release ['fahrenheit_drafts' on Trace
Recordings UK] was composed of tracks used for QUEERING SOUND 04. Additionally,
BLK w/ BEAR's 'mystery' contribution to the Kuma-Chan
Records 'Hot Hands: A Tribute to Throwing Muses and Kristin Hersch'
compilation disc ... a decidedly warped
deconstruction of 'garoux de larmes'... is now available at the iTunes
on-line store.
All Music Guide said: "His creations use everything from dissonance
to ambient sounds to offer towering, constantly unfolding terrains of sonic
inquiry."

Hat City Intuitive--The Danbury, CT/Williamsburg, NYC/Arlington,
VA nexus of old skool hardcore kids turned "new weird america," loved and
respected by Wire critics Byron Coley and Marc Masters, and other great
(stoned?) minds. Anyway, they're sure to lay down a sprawling mess of something
way more than the sum of electronics, free jazz, avant rock, and etc. They
always do.

MIND OVER MATTER MUSIC OVER
MIND--DC trio of Bobby Hill - Record Players; Chris Downing - Wave
Drum/Keyboard/Laptop; Thomas Stanley - Wave Stations/Laptop. Their mission
is to enlighten and expand mindfields using a combo of cosmic funk, fusion
jazz, and musics of like mindfulness. Celebrity alert: Bobby Hill's radio
program "The Other Side" can be heard on WPFW Saturday nights from 12-3
a.m. Hill and Thomas Stanley are two-fifths of Transparent Productions,
the venerable group of free-jazz presenters. And all 3 are members of cosmic
jazz-funketeers Noumenal Lingam.

Artist's statement: "Our work is not a text. By intention, the
sounds that we have generated, collected and brought into conjunction are
not to be taken as a socially conditioned statement to be decoded or read,
nor as an instance of personal or cultural expression to be felt. MOMMOM
seeks to change minds not fiddle around with their contents. The political
dimension of MOM2 is rooted in the distinction between these two approaches.
Art can do many things. It need not be limited to making additions to the
clutter of facts, beliefs, ideological warrants, and emotional tropes within
which our attention flutters like debris in a strong wind. MIND OVER MATTER
MUSIC OVER MIND is directed at the function of consciousness, not at its
contents. For the mind, morphology is physiology and MOMMOM seeks to redraw
the boundaries of mental health. This radical re-normalization of mental
possibility is inherently political, challenging as it must, the most basic
premises of social organization and order."

Vector Trio--(DC) Hot fusion
delivering miles and miles of Miles and galaxies much further out. Scott
Forrey on trumpet, electronics & loops, Marshall Hughey on drums, Gary
Rouzer on bass."Vector Trio loops windows of sound while continuing to
add to the musical picture in real time with uncanny agility."

Trinary--(DC) A subsection of free-form
music collective Indent including Nik Francis on laptop electronics, Tyler
Higgins on saxophone & clarinet, and Rob Thornton on bass. "Shifting
themes float about slightly composed and mostly improvised settings. Strings,
Jazz, Dirt and Light for the brain." More
info.

Windmill Saxophone
Quartet--Like it says on the label, four reedsmen (Clayton Englar,
Jesse Meman, Ken Plant, Tom Monroe) play modern jazz by Mingus, Coltrane,
Dizzy Gillespie and others, plus their own compositions. They even cover
Beatles and Talking Heads! Albums on Mapleshade Records prove they can
cook it with the best of them. The Washington Post said "like the
World Saxophone Quartet meets Lester Bowie." And Jazz Times said:
"An astonishing palette of sound from the unorthodox instrumentation...
inventive and full of panache, with a dash of the experimental avant garde,
both re-working jazz standards and including clever original pieces...
a dynamic presentation that is full of forward movement and sustains interest";
"This unit could hold its own against any similar rhythm section-less unit
playing today."

A-UN: A-UN is
the beginning to the end: a combination of the first (A) and last (UN)
letters of the Japanese alphabet that translates into "the universe."
A-UN -- a duo consisting of Nobu Stowe (piano) and Alan Munshower (drums)
-- is dedicated to exploring 'Total Improvisation': a genre
of fully improvised music pioneered by Keith Jarrett, arguably the greatest
improviser in recent centuries. His methods are reminiscent of what J.S.
Bach was once famous for. Total Improvisation is the incorporation of 'Free
Improvisation' (C. Taylor/P. Bley) and 'Instant Composing' (M. Mengelberg),
which requires the performer not only to experiment with 'sound textures'
but also to spontaneously create 'songs' (melodies with chordal progressions).
Yet A-UN is also a unit dedicated to exploring composition-based improvisation
in unconventional ways. Nobu Stowe and Alan Munshower are two thirds of
the Post-Fusion unit, Trio Ricochet (www.trioricochet.com), which also
includes double-bassist Tyler Goodwin.

Nobu Stowe (piano): Nobu was born in Maebashi, Japan. He started
taking piano lessons at age 3 and composition at age 6. He moved
to the Bay Area to study Music (composition) and Psychology at the University
of California at Berkeley (Bachelors). He then moved to Chicago to pursue
a graduate degree in Psychology at the University of Chicago. After
receiving a Ph.D. in 2002, he relocated to Baltimore to work as a psychoactive-drug
researcher for the National Institute of Health. Nobu has mostly led his
own projects including a duet with Vytis Nivinskas, a great Lithuanian
bassist (ex-Vladimir Chekasin of the legendary USSR free-jazz unit the
Ganelin Trio), which was recorded by Ken Christianson of NAIM label (Charlie
Haden/John Taylor). His current main project is the post-fusion unit TRIO
RICOCHET (www.trioricochet.com) which has been active in Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and NYC. His new free-improv trio with the Philly-based percussion master
Toshi Makihara and Vytis Nivinskas will make their debut on 1/23 (Sun)
as a part of C.O.M.A. series at ABC no Rio in NYC.

Alan Munshower (drums): Alan was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
He started pursuing drums at the age of 10. He continued his drumset
studies at Goucher College in Baltimore. He has been active in the Baltimore
music scene and performs a wide array of music from straight-ahead jazz
to classical to rock. Alan currently lends his drumming skills to Baltimore
Brass (brass ensemble), Alan Munshower Jazz Trio/Quartet (mainstream jazz),
the Dixieland Saints (dixieland jazz), the Karaoke Superstars (surf-rock/fusion),
and TRIO RICOCHET. Alan has been giving drum lessons for 5 years and has
toured in France twice. You can read about all of Alan's projects on his
home page (www.alanmunshower.com).